Mine detail: Black Butte Creek

Previously called 'Black Butte Deposit'

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Location

Lat / long: 41.50606, -108.83404

Resource(M)

Primary: Titanium-Heavy Minerals
Tertiary: Thorium, Zirconium, Iron
Other material: Anatase, Ilmenite, Magnetite, Monazite, Rutile, Zircon
Discovery year: 1954

Production

Operation type: Surface
Production size: None
Development status: Occurrence

Geology

Host type:Sandstone

References

MRDSW001613
MAS560370038
DEP10068540
Reference{Deposit:: HOUSTON, R. S., AND MURPHY, J. F., 1962, TITANIFEROUS BLACK SANDSTONE DEPOSITS OF WYOMING: WYOMING GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 49, p. 110-111.}{Deposit:: Wilson, W.H., 1966, WGS Bull. 50, p. 196.}
ReporterWilson, Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC), Cooper, Margaret, Wilson, Anna B.